Tuesday, March 21, 2017

March 21, 2017 Ridley's Believe It Or Not World Poetry Day

Ridley’s Believe It Or Not For March 21, 2017 In something we
never witnessed during the aloof and narcissistic presidency of Obama,
President Trump was on Capital Hill meeting with House Republicans trying to
convince them on the replacement bill for Obamacare while the markets tanked
due to concern that a repeal will not be forthcoming and such failure will doom
any chance of tax cuts that this country desperately needs; confirmation hearings
continue on Gorsuch but it is becoming increasingly clear that the Blues better
start looking for the nearest fallout shelter as Reds are prepared to and will
exercise the nuclear option and confirm him with a majority vote; in another Willie
Horton moment two illegal scumbags from Guatemala and El Salvador one of whom
was on a deportation list, repeatedly and viciously raped a 14 year old girl in
a Rockville, Maryland high school, prompting outcry from the White House
especially since Montgomery County where Rockville is located is actively seeking
sanctuary status and according to ICE even now does not cooperate with ICE (Senator
Harris has introduced legislation to ban the construction of a wall on our
southern border but it is a safe bet that she has not left the confines of the
swamp to console the parents of that young victim); the Trump Administration
has released a report of those jurisdictions that do not comply with ICE
detainer requests and will update it weekly; in a cyber Kitty Genovese moment déjà
vu, 6 scumbags in Chicago gang raped a
15 year old girl and streamed it live on Facebook watched by at least 40 people
and no one had the decency to call the police and report it (the six are still
at large and you have to wonder what this world is degenerating into); Maxine
Waters an ideologue so left that she makes Senator Harris look like a member of
the John Birch Society is idiotically blowing the impeachment horn (her voters
would be in a much better world if this scumbag plantation owner freed them by
resigning from office); almost like a stuck record, the carnage in
Chicago continues unabated with total shootings in 2017 through March 30
increasing to 653 and the death toll increasing by 1 to 119 (God help those
poor minorities being shot mostly by minorities when the weather gets warmer
and the shooters’ aim gets really better and there is more daylight to find and
shoot victims) and yet nothing, absolutely nothing, appears to be occurring to
address this blight on blacks and minorities which is what racism from a black
mayor really looks like.

As always, I hope you enjoy
today’s holidays and observances, another music link to the Sgt. Barry Sadler,
factoids of interest for this day in history, an original poem from the
Alaskanpoet and a relevant quote from Aberjhani,
while hoping that your elected officials are not anfractuous in missals to you,secure
in the knowledge that if you want to find a gift for any memorable events
like birthdays, weddings, or anniversaries, you know that the Alaskanpoet
can provide you with a unique customized poem at a great
price tailored to the event and the recipient. You need only contact me
for details.

1. World Poetry Day—designated by UNESCO in 1999 to recognize the importance of
poetry in our daily lives and to encourage its creation and reading. If I were
to find a rose that would not fade and always seem fresh and new/ would I seek
it in the florist shop?/ or in the rose gardens or the fields?/where to find
this sought after floral jewel/ no matter the water, no matter the food all
petals will soon fall/ only the name with a woman will the petals of a rose remain/
name your daughters Rose and for a middle name add Jewel/beauty and eternity in
a name/only worry is the ardor of suitors to tame.

2. International Day to End Racial Discrimination—created by the UN General Assembly in 1966 and observed on the
anniversary of the South African police forces opening fire on a peaceful march
on this day in 1960 in at Sharpville, South Africa protesting apartheid. Racial
discrimination is something all of us should detest and fight against and likewise
the tendency of too many politicians and groups to minimalize its existence by
throwing down the race card at the drop of a hat regardless of whether there is
a basis for the charge.

3. 1966 Number One Song—celebrating the number one song in 1966 on a run of 5 weeks in that position “Ballad of the Green
Beret” by Sgt. Barry Sadler. Here is a recording of him performing the
song in uniform: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5WJJVSE_BE

4. Word of the Day—today’s word of the day is “anfractuous” which means winding or circuitous
which probably describes the speech patterns of most politicians.

5. Obesity Can Be Your
Friend—celebrating or bemoaning depending on your political point of view
the birthday on this day in 1962 of “comedian” and LGBT activist Rosie O’Donnell
who tends to be on the obese side.

On this day
in:

a. 1809 Code Napoleon was
adopted as the French Civil Law.

b. 1861 Alexander Stephens the Vice President of the Confederacy
gave his Cornerstone Speech defending
in no uncertain terms the institution of slavery.
c. 1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. led a third and successful march from Selma,
Alabama to the state capital at Montgomery.

d. 1970 the first Earth Day proclamation was issued by Mayor
Joseph Alioto of San Francisco.

e. 1980 President Jimmy Carter announced a boycott of the 1980
Summer Olympics to be held in Moscow due to the invasion of Afghanistan by the
Soviet Union.

Observations on the nature of a poet “A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or
sometimes midnight.”Aberjhani, noted American author, historian and poet. Wise words that
this poet would add “or blows away the morning fog or leaves footsteps of dew
from the night before.”Please enjoy thepoems on events of interest on my twitter account below (if you
like them, retweet andfollow me) and follow my blogs. Always good, incisive and
entertaining poems on my blogs—click on the links below. Go to www.alaskanpoet.blogspot.com for
Ridley’s Believe It Or Not—This Day in History, poems to inspire, touch,
emote, elate and enjoy and poems on breaking news items of importance or go
to Ridley's Believe
It Or Notfor just This Day in History.

About Me

Raised in a small fishing village in Alaska, Petersburg,in the 40's and 50's. Returned in the 60's to fish commercially on purse seiners for six summers. Graduate of Stanford class of 69 with great distinction, Yale Law School class of 72, For many years an experienced, efficient, and creative lawyer and adviser providing venture capital, corporate and transactional legal services to start-ups and emerging private and public companies. Published poet, customized poems for memorable events, creator of Ridley's Believe It Or Not--This Day in History (daily factoids, holidays, quotes and often a short poem), and daily tweets in 140 iambic bytes on news of day and in the process of publishing North to Alaska--Islands of Stability in Seas of Change. Contact me have created a unique customized poem for any memorable event or to impress a loved one networking events. mridley@octechlaw.com, www.octechlaw.com, linkedin.com/in/octechlaw.com, twitter.com/alaskanpoet,
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